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SXSW 2022 Movie Review: ‘Fire of Love’
Fire of Love displays dualities and contrasts. It is a love story and a tragedy; it makes you laugh and makes you sad; it is science and so totally human. Fire of Love screened as part of this year’s...
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SXSW Music Festival 2022: Wednesday, March 16
I always refer to South by Southwest Wednesday and Thursdays as the dog days of the festival. They’re a grind, noticeably more this week since the Music Festival portion of SXSW started on a Monday. I...
View ArticleSXSW Film Review: ‘Spin Me Round’
Spin Me Round, directed by Jeff Baena, screened at SXSW 2022. The comedy feature suggests stereotypical romantic fantasies about Tuscany, Italy. The film layers these with scary nightmare tropes about...
View ArticleSXSW Documentary Review: The Sentimental ‘Mickey: the Story of a Mouse’
Receiving its world premiere at SXSW 2022, Jeff Malmberg’s exhaustively-researched documentary explores the history of the little animated mouse that has touched lives all around the world for more...
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World Premieres and Top Talent Rock SXSW’s 2023 Film Festival
Chris Pine, Tilda Swinton, Dennis Haysbert, Taron Egerton, and Dave Bautista are just some of the stars featured in this year’s lineup of premieres and fan favorites at SXSW. Here are some selected...
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SXSW 2023: More Than Movies, It’s Past, Present and Future
This year’s SXSW Conference will run March 10-19 in Austin, Texas, for it’s thirty-seventh year. You might think, “film festival” when you hear SXSW. It’s first seven years, however, it was a music...
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2023 SXSW Music Festival: Monday, March 13 (Austin, TX)
Another year, another week of great live music at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. I’m still trying to get used to the idea of the 2023 SXSW Music Festival officially starting on a Monday, but I’m...
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SXSW 2023 Film Review: ‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’
“Roll a 12 or better.” That’s a phrase you’ve heard if you’ve ever played Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). You won’t hear that in the new film from Paramount Pictures, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among...
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SXSW 2023 Film: ‘Angel Applicant’ – A Story Within a Story
Is art just decoration, or can it have an impact on politics and life? In Angel Applicant, artist/filmmaker Ken August Meyer explores the answers by interweaving two stories, one from the 1930s and...
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SXSW Music Festival 2023: Tuesday, March 14 (Austin, TX)
If you’ve never struggled to get out of bed after a night of indie artist showcases at South by Southwest, then you haven’t tried to see or hear all you can within a single day in Austin, Texas. Or...
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SXSW 2023: Connecting Your Brain to Computers
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) connects a human brain to a computer, and it may be in your future. The presentation “Hello World: Brain Computer Interfaces at Scale” presented cutting-edge science...
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SXSW 2023 Film: Two Rom-Coms from the Future
What would you get if you could put When Harry Met Sally in a box with your favorite sci-fi movies and shake them all up? Two possible results from such an experiment screened at this year’s SXSW...
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SXSW 2023 Film Review: The Splendidly Surreal ‘Chronicles of a Wandering Saint’
Making its world premiere at SXSW 2023, the Argentinian entry Chronicles of a Wandering Saint, from director/screenwriter Tomás Gómez Bustillo, is an imaginative, humorous and even moving look at how...
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SXSW 2023 Film: Tilda Swinton is ‘Problemista’
The world premiere of Problemista screened at this year’s SXSW Conference, which ran for its 37th year, March 10-19, in Austin, Texas. The comedy film relates the trials of Alejandro, an aspiring toy...
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SXSW 2023 TV Review: ‘The Big Door Prize’ with Chris O’Dowd
Ever wonder what your potential as a human being was? What if there was a machine that could give you that answer? Such a machine mysteriously appears in the general store of Deerfield, Louisiana, in...
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SXSW 2023: NASA, Robert Rodriguez, and Reggie Watts
This year’s SXSW Conference ran March 10-19 in Austin. If you have never been to “south-by”, you might think of it only as a film festival, or a film fest with some music. It is so much more. If I had...
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SXSW Music Festival 2023: Wednesday, March 15 with Darling West, Ava Vegas,...
The biggest casualty of this year’s South by Southwest layout change was the moving of the SXSW Registration Lounge from an outdoor Brush Square, which is adjacent north to the Austin Convention...
View ArticleSXSW World Premiere Documentary: ‘This World Is Not My Own’
This is a rewarding documentary with an approach that takes the genre in surprisingly unique directions. Making its world premiere at SXSW 2023, Petter Ringbom and Marquise Stillwell’s This World Is...
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SXSW Music Festival 2023: Thursday, March 16 with Girl Scout, Woodes, Vök,...
Discovering a new band at South by Southwest is a lot like making a new friend at camp. You’re BFFs for a week, but then you’re back to your regular friends when you return home. However, you seek...
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SXSW 2024: The Science and Craft of Storytelling
Human beings tell stories. It’s what makes us different. Perhaps the best place to experience and learn about storytelling can be found on the verge of spring each year in Austin, Texas: the SXSW...
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